Comic Book Review: Green Lantern #47

Written by Geoff Johns
Art and cover by Doug Mahnke and Christian Alamy
Variant cover by Ed Benes

Plot
Abin Sur returns at full force, ready to claim Hal Jordan and Sinestro into the Black Lantern Corps. Now the former comrades must now comes to terms and fight alongside one another if their hopes of defeating the Zombie Corps will ever become a reality. As the Green, Violet, Yellow and Indigo Lanterns rush to save Blue Lantern, Saint Walker from the twisted Agent Orange Larfleeze, the Blue Lantern power Battery mysteriously comes back to life and no one can figure out why.

Elsewhere on Ysmault, home world of the Red Lantern Corps, we discover that the Black Lanterns and the Red Lanterns have something in common.

My Thoughts
Well now, the Red Lantern Corps is much more important than we had anticipated isn’t it? So the question now remains, how do you kill a Red Lantern? The answer to that of course is simple enough seeing as how the heart beat resides within the ring, but this new twist in the story now presents an interesting, yet terrifying predicament.

I was left very unsatisfied at how quickly Abin Sur was taken out of the picture. It would have been great to stretch this out further and truly create some emotional drama to weigh in on both Jordan’s and Sinestro’s backs.  Especially how last issue gave us such a shock with his abrupt return, you would think geoff Johns use that to his advantage and give his readers one hell of an emtional train ride!  I really did expect more with Abin Sur's character.

I’m also beginning to wonder why Larfleeze was even brought into the picture at all. The Agent Orange arc started and ended very well; I was much more terrified of Agent Orange than I was of Attroticus. But now Larfleeze coming off more as a comic relief.

When Blackest night first started going, my biggest worries were the remarkable similarities to the Power Rangers, but it’s so much more than that. The war of light has so many hidden meanings and powerful messages right now, it’s almost impossible to comprehend all of them at once. But the underlying message, the one that will overshadow all the rest I’m sure, is how all of the corps in the emotional spectrum will have to work together to defeat evil. My only worry…that johns will end this mini with a predictable and unsatisfying ending that won’t serve this series justice.

Overall
Good, about average. It had a few incredible SHOCKERS, but this issue doesn’t stand out as an incredible work of art. But the mystery has only JUST begun to unravel.

3 out of 5 stars

Next Issue Coming 11/25/2009

BLACKEST NIGHT continues! Agent Orange and his Orange Lanterns face off against the Black Lantern Corps, and Larfleeze finds himself wanting something he never has before: Help. Meanwhile, Saint Walker comes face-to-face with the one being in the universe he has no patience for – Sinestro!